When you open the Tablet Input Panel (tap or wave the pen over the icon in
the Taskbar), on the right side is a large "O" - not a zero - which you can
tap with the pen. You immediately have several Options (hence the O),
including Dock at Top of Screen, Dock at Bottom of Screen, and Undock.
Choosing the latter will activate the Tablet Input Panel, but not anchored
on any screen location.

Undock means you'll have a small Tablet Access icon which will be on-screen
only when you are using the pen AND the cursor is an a text input area.
Otherwise it never shows. This allows you total freedom to use your pen for
navigation, opening and closing programs, reading news messages and emails,
etc., but the TIP is handy ONLY if you're going to input text.

You do not need to open the Tablet Input Panel from the Taskbar any more, it
will show up when appropriate anywhere on your screen in the proximity of
the input area. Moving the pen away from the screen or moving to an area
like scrolling a page in Internet Explorer, and the TIP and icon disappear
from the screen. I've got some little tutorials on my web site in my
signature line..
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"MayHem" <MayHem@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EA6BCA48-A545-4A64-92E7-84F38AE1AA52@microsoft.com...
> Sure enough... Tablet PC edition 2005 SP2... How annoying... now I cant
> see
> the icons of my open minimized applications because of this monstrocity of
> a
> button... Not sure how to set the dock/undoc option... could you clue me
> to
> that... thanks much, MayHem
>
>
>
>
> "Chris H." wrote:
>
>> Which version of the Tablet PC Edition are you running? Do you have XP
>> SP2
>> and the Tablet PC Edition 2005 installed? The latter does take up the
>> entire width (either top or bottom of your screen, landscape or portrait,
>> if
>> you're using the Dock mode. If you have the 2005 version installed (new
>> to
>> you?) and set the Option on the Tablet Input Panel to Undock, you'll only
>> have the floating icon (TIP Access icon) on-screen when you're using your
>> pen and are in a text input area.
>> --
>> Chris H.
>> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
>> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
>> Associate Expert
>> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>
>>
>> "MayHem" <MayHem@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:04B735F7-BCBB-4E2D-BC61-9CF8F3158F5A@microsoft.com...
>> > my Tablet PC input panel button has quadrupaled in size and now takes
>> > up
>> > the
>> > full width of my taskbar. What can I do to get it down to its regular
>> > small
>> > size?
>> >
>> > Coincidently... or not so... it happened after the last Microsoft
>> > update
>>
>>
>>